Time and the Conways at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh

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Jessica Tomchak, Molly Vevers and Nicola Harrison in Time and the ConwaysTim Morozzo

Allan Radcliffe

Last updated at 12:01AM, March 1 2013

Like his most frequently revived play, An Inspector Calls, J.B Priestley’s Time and the Conways opens on an exuberant family party. The year is 1919 and one of the daughters, Kay (Emily Winter), is celebrating her 21st birthday.

The six Conway siblings, their mother and selected guests flit in and out of the drawing room, donning costumes, hats and false whiskers for a charade they’re enacting in the next room. A feeling of hope is in the air following the end of the First World War and this has infected members of this well-to-do Yorkshire family.